The Rejuvenation of John McCain
The titular head of the Republican Party, known for his short-fused temper, has exploded after two and a half years of volcanic quiescence.
John McCain, who had to placate far-right opposition to keep his Senate seat last year, is finally blowing his lid over “Tea Party Hobbits” for their “foolish” and “deceiving” behavior in pushing a balanced-budget amendment.
Moreover, he has also freed himself from being polite about his disastrous running mate by blasting “the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” two Sarah-Palin backed candidates in 2010.
It may come as a surprise to Palin as well as Mitch McConnell and John Boehner that, by tradition, the presidential nominee of a defeated party is considered its titular head and spokesperson.
Not that such an arrangement has always been honored without resistance or deviation.
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The “maverick” that pretended Obama would lose a war to win the presidency and also had one messaging tactic for Obama visiting a veteran’s hospital, and one if Obama didn’t…
Who woke him up again, I wonder?
Now that is the John McCain I voted for!
I voted for him also, but that little, tiny, lapse in judgment, selecting Palin, has me turned off. Still 87.5% of his stuff is still good and his TP attitude works for me.
John McCain has had trouble being consistent in his judgement ever since that SC primary way back in 2000. Sometimes he’s on target, sometimes he’s out in the weeds. Seems like kind of a loose cannon to me.
I would have voted for him, but he ran away from what put him in the spotlight to begin with. Lobby reform. When he did that, I realized he was no Eisenhower.
Overreacting to McCain’s chiding of the Tea Party is silly.
Where will y’all be when he sides with social conservatives?
Why we switch sides and nail him, that Palin loving son of a gun.
He’ll be abandoned and loathed by lefties faster than he was hastily and so clumsily celebri-fied. (Just ’cause it meshes with “I want!”)
Somebody get that boy a bib!
face it DLS, the Republican party is dead. It killed itself.
Only now McCain starts to make sense again (in his own, lovable way).
You took, like, 10 years off, dude.
Not yet, Allen. The Democrats, especially lib-Dems, will keep it alive, dysfunctional as it happens to be. Example: 2010 elections.
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What Social Conservatives? Who are they anyway? Better yet, where are they?
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Example-2010 elections. Yes, the Republicans were able to hide the pea for that election. Not the next one though. The truth is getting out no matter how much idle rich pay to suppress it.
Be kind to the old guy. He sold his soul for the Rep nomination..he had too, you can’t win the nomination without going full conservative. Yes, Palin was a mistake, but at the time she was a smart political decision for winning the WH, maybe some of you forgot how well McCain was doing after she was chosen, but before the banking crash.
Well, at least the crash produced one good result, it may have kept Palin out.